The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-12-15
OUR NAN ON THE OUTSIDE.
CHIPS FROM A. HATCHETT.

OXFORD, n. c., December 13, 1887.
Sheriff Bullock left to-day for Raleigh
with three prisoners for the State board
ing house. Buck Hockaday and Sol Ken
nedy have sentence Of ten years each
for grand larceny, and Mary Jones twelve
months for concealment of birth Of child.
All were colored, about twenty years old,
and after boarding the 0. & Ii. train,
seemed as happy as picnic party.
We spent an hour or two most pleasantly
in the I0rchligM Office with our friends
Jones and Bromell. Brother Gregory was
not in, having few days before sold hi:
half interest to Ed Jones who now owns
the entire office. Buck Gregory will con-
tinue to represent the advertising depart
ment of the paper Oxford is full of to-
baceo wagons and farmers. Luther Stark,
the auctioneer at the Minor Warehouse.
claims that he sold four hundred piles of
tobacco in one hour, but Luther. you know,
is rather tall-something over six feet.
ALT Hobgood, of Cozart. Hobgood &
Crews, threatened us with suit for dam
ages because, to the complimentary re-
marks made about his firm in this paper
several weeks ago, we assumed the heavy
responsibility of putting our initials. Ga.
H.), ALI was accused of being the author
himself and the consequence was dozen
fghts-mOre OF less.
There are fewer bar rooms here than In
Henderson, but the whiskey must be
stronger or meaner, for we saw more far
mers on the " stagger" than are usually
seen in Henderson.
The Town Hall is rapidly approaching
completion, and the finishing touches are
being put on the Herndon block, which is
an ornament to the town.
Everybody here is busy at least every
body that we have any bills against, which
goes to show it pays to give patron age to
the GOLD LEAF.
just before the war we were in the
crowded dining room of the Exchange
Hotel Richmond taking. supper, when Colin
Stokes of Lunenburg Co, Va, dignified
old gentleman came in, walked the entire
length of the room and took his seat op-
poSite US. AS he marched through the
room, some of the guests stared at him In
such way it had an appearance of rude
ness. This offended Mr.. Stokes and he
determined to show his contempt for the
crowd, and when the waiter asked il he
would have tea or coffee, he replied ''tea.
"What kind of tea?" 'Store tea, you in
fernal fool, can get plenty of Sassafras
tea at home
More than eighteen hundred years ago
the words OF The King of Kings remember
the poor" we're recorded in O sacred vol
ume. Upon the anniversary of this great
authors birth, will it not be we'll, among
the other poor, to remember to pay the
printer for the two or three years subscrip-
ton you owe? Neither the editor, the
derI or the MAN on the Outside" expect
| the killing Of the "fatted calf even
though they be prodigals. but if we are
not remembered to some extent, there be
some poor that ye will not have always
with you
1t is among the probabilities that ere
another issue of the GOLD LEAF is laid be-
fore the public, the Man on the Outside
will he hewing his chips from other tim.
Der not where he can expect more kind
| ness and consideration than here, but where
he hopes to get more of that filthy lucre''
which makes the mare co. Necessity
makes the best of friends part. but il we
haze to leave, will not do so without a
polite goodbye.